Former site of Peter Cooper's glue factory

A typical dumpy-looking (I mean that lovingly) local politician's office, and the site of a dramatic kitten rescue last January.

Currently Historic First Church of God in Christ

Outside the Jewish Children's Museum

A portable outreach center

of all the wigs available at Wig Club on Flatbush

But the sign lingers on.

The former Kings County Savings Bank on Eastern Parkway

Levantapompis?

Every single store for almost a mile along Lee Avenue was closed for Shabbat.

This sign has seen some rough times since I last walked by in 2007.

Feltly Hats was featured in a NY Times story about Hasidic hats a couple years ago.

You can tell it's a Jewish block — it's Shabbat, so no one's moved their car since the snow started falling early this morning.

I didn't realize I had been walking on snow for almost a mile until my feet hit clean sidewalk and I had to stop for a moment to figure out why everything felt different all of a sudden. Then I understood: I had reached the end of the Hasidic part of Williamsburg, where no one had been shoveling sidewalks because it's Shabbat. (For the record, this change occurred right by Peter Luger Steak House.)